I'm sorry for the way OT post, but here goes. I'm an informatics specialist, and R user. My wife is a secondary school maths teacher. My wife recently tried to explain to her class the link between education and potential salary, and I would love to be able to show this graphically, however, I cannot find any freely available data for this. Does anyone know of a suitable dataset, or where I might find one ?Ideally salary, maximum education level, age, sex, industry and some form of geographic location would be amazing. Alternatively, are you aware of any public organisations that would have this information and might divulge it under the freedom of information act ? Thanks in advance Paul.
Way OT: Anyone know where to get data on relationship between education and salary
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Hi Paul, I don't have a good answer to your request, but you might find something looking around the US Department of Labor's site: "Overview of BLS Wage Data by Area and Occupation" (BLS = Bureau of Labor Statistics). http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm A quick glance doesn't show me "education" associated with these data, but I am not looking hard. Most of the rest of the information you want appears to be present. Regards, Mark Dalphin
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I'm sorry for the way OT post, but here goes. I'm an informatics specialist, and R user. My wife is a secondary school maths teacher. My wife recently tried to explain to her class the link between education and potential salary, and I would love to be able to show this graphically, however, I cannot find any freely available data for this. Does anyone know of a suitable dataset, or where I might find one ?Ideally salary, maximum education level, age, sex, industry and some form of geographic location would be amazing. Alternatively, are you aware of any public organisations that would have this information and might divulge it under the freedom of information act ? Thanks in advance Paul.
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I'm sorry for the way OT post, but here goes. ?I'm an informatics specialist, and R user. ?My wife is a secondary school maths teacher.
The first place to look for this sort of information in the US is the
Statistical Abstract of the United States [which is, sadly, scheduled
to be a victim of the US budget cuts], where table 228 turns out to be
"Mean earnings by highest degree earned', broken down by age, race,
sex.
For raw data for the UK I think you want the British Household Panel
Survey. Access to the raw data or online table generation requires
registration at the UK Data Archive. Someone may well have done the
analysis already, though -- they have a bibliography of published
papers.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland